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Use Git commandline directly from Visual Studio
Not many people seem to know this, but the Visual Studio Package manager is nothing more than a Powershell window inside Visual Studio with a bunch of modules loaded. Which means that you can use it to...
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Connecting to TFS from any version of Visual Studio (Updated with VS2012.4...
I've written a couple of blog posts on this subject before and thought it would  be nice to consolidate them into one big post now that Visual Studio 2013 is about to be released. There are 3 major...
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Team foundation Service is now known as...
And I've updated the tags to all posts referencing TFSvc to now also include Visual Studio Online. This helps clear up the definition of TFS is that Server or Service? So, TFS is the on premise product...
View ArticleUpdated MSOCAF for Visual Studio Code Analysis rules
2 years ago I worked on a huge SharePoint project where we had to run the MSOCAF wizard  before deployment to the production  environment. And of course, every time a few rules triggered that caused...
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ALM Rangers ship the TFS Reporting guidance books and samples v1
It has taken a lot of people a long time to work on an extensive guide on extending the TFS reporting capabilities and getting some report data out of the Team Foundation Service. Grab your copy while...
View ArticleEnabling Mighty Moose for Visual Studio 2013
Warning:Â This is probably totally unsupported, and might come with its own class of issues, but so far it seems to work...To enable Mighty Moose in Visual Studio 2013 do the following steps:Install...
View ArticleUpgrade your existing ASP.NET MVC4 application to MVC5
To upgrade your existing MVC 4 application to MVC 5 you need to go through a number of steps to replace the references and patch the web.config. These steps are clearly explained in the original post,...
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Resharper 8.1 goes gold & Resharper CLI
For those of you who are using Resharper, version 8.1 was just released with Typescript support and better integration with Visual Studio 2013. The full release blog can be found here.With Resharper...
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Red-Gate releases Reflector .NET 8.3
And they finally integrated the Analyzer feature into Visual Studio. Now you can find out where a specific call is bing used, right from your editor. I find this feature immensely handy when trying to...
View ArticleResolving test run issues in Visual Studio "Some or all identity references...
One of my devs ran into a strange bug in the Visual Studio test runner today. It manifests itself in the fact that tests won't run and you'll find the following error message in the Output\Test...
View ArticleCodelens features and Visual Studio versions
If you're as happy with the new CodeLens features in Visual Studio 2013 ultimate as I am, you've probably found out that some of the features rely on server side features. This means that some Code...
View ArticleInstalling Windows 8.1 to a Samsung Series 7 Slate
Note: I already had the latest firmware version installed. If you haven't upgraded your firmware, do so before installing Windows 8 RTM. For the //Build tablets this is firmware version 05WJ. If you...
View ArticleInstall Team Foundation Server Power Tools side-by-side
If you're like me, then you probably have more than one version of Visual Studio installed on your system. And you might be connecting to multiple versions of TFS as well. Currently I have Visual...
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One of my new favorite plugins for Visual Studio and TFS
Today I stumbled upon a new Team Explorer extension for TFS in Visual Studio. It almost immediately made it on my shortlist of things that I need to have on every Visual Studio installation. It's...
View ArticleCreating a custom check-in policy pack that works with multiple versions of...
Anyone who has ever tried to create a custom check-in policy for Visual Studio probably knows that the policy isn't specific to the TFS server version you're using, but to the version of Visual Studio...
View ArticleCreating a Check-in Policy to warn when checking into multiple branches at once
One of the teams I work with recently had strange issues when they tried to merge their feature branches to the main branch. It turned out that one developer had accidentally misconfigured his...
View ArticleAvanade partners with scrum.org
As many of you probably already know, I became a trainer with Scrum.org for the Professional Scrum Developer curriculum a year ago, and now Avanade (my employer) and Scrum.org have partnered up to...
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Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy
A TFS checkin policy can normally only be dismissed by overriding the policy. There is no way to selectively allow a user to override one, but not another policy. And there is no way to interact with...
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Book Review: Resharper Essentials - Or: Find your way around Reharper's...
I received an ebook copy from Packt Publishing for an honest review, So here we go :).I've been a long time, on and off user of Resharper. But it has taken me a long time to learn most of its features....
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Work item customization doesn't get reflected in Web Access (2012 and 2013)
In our company we have quite a few custom process templates for TFS, most of these have been around for quite some time and have been updated as new versions have come along. Recently I was asked by a...
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